All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.
Dave BarryThe bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.
Dave BarryThat is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and heโs coming for this ship now.โ โAnd how do you know that?โ asked Slank. โDid a seagull tell you?โ This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.
Dave BarryThere was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lumpโan old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.
Dave BarryIf Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbertโs Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.
Dave Barry